Phyrox

I'm not sure about the Avenger, but the SB2C Helldiver had 20s.

P-39, P-63, P61, F4U1-C, P-70

That was one of the hardest missions in the game if I remember. I played that one many times. The trench one was super hard, but if I remember you only have to destroy two T/A...I think (it's been many years). I think I hit the towers, destoyed the minimum T/A, and routed all power to engines except enough to maintain sheilds. Then hit the trench. I was lucky in that I had to have the graphics on low to play smoothly, and the trench was comparitivly obstacle-free. An incredibly fun mission that was though. Although Tie-fighter was a better game, I always liked X-wing a bit more. You felt like an outnumbered, defensive rebel force like you were supposed to. In Tie Fighter I must have single-handedly destroyed the entire rebel fleet three times over, that didn't feel right.

Macross II felt much more like the macross world than Macross Plus did. I liked Plus much more than 2, but Macross II certainly feels like Macross. I think its biggest problem is that it isn't different enough.

You know 1/48 is only around 14% larger than 1/55. The truth is the Alpha is just a small mecha.

The Toynami Alphas aren't really 1/55. If you measure them I think I remember they were somewhere inbetween 1/48 and 1/55. So I guess you could call them either one.

I would skip Macross Zero and Macross 7. Well, maybe not skip Mac0, but at least hold off until you have seen the rest. It only works as a prequel if you've seen what comes after first. Even then I don't think it works that well. Macross 2 isn't neccessary either. And while Mac7 does continue the Macross universe story, you might not like where it takes it. But D/L a few episodes and decide for yourself. I don't think you are going to find a copy of Zero or 7 on DVD if you are in the States. At least not a legitimate copy. I watched both when Kazaa was hot, but I imagine they can be torrented easily enough

B A D A S S If someone releases a decal kit I'm makin' an A-10 kit next. Speaking of durable planes, I was just reading a book on the Mariner...it isn't one of 'em. From most texts and unit histories you don't get much of a feel for it, but it has a list of every mariner loss in the appendix. Engine failure cum fiery crash like it was going out of style. B-29s similarly don't seem to have been very combat survivable. Well, not that it wasn't durable, but that, like a submarine, you were either safe, or FUKIN' DEAD. I've always assumed it was due to the catastrophic loss of pressure associated with combat damage making escape a difficult prospect in that plane in particular, but I've never read enough on B-29s to verify this idea. When you read about a B-29 loss, it seems to usually be "moderately damaged so they decided to jump or ditch," or "down with all hands."

In Macross the SDF-1 survives, in the Robotech version it is destroyed. Minmay goes off in the Megaroad spacecraft with "Lisa" and "Rick," that's all you ever know. "Miriya" and Max are major players in Macross 7. I don't know what happens to "Dana," and I don't care. For Macross: Zero is the prequel (not that good in my opinion) Macross is the series Robotech:Macross Saga was drawn from Macross DYRL is a retelling of the Macross series Macross Plus is a fairly unrelated sequel (but pretty good on its own) Macross 7 is about a colony fleet and its pop-singing, jet pilot hero Macross 2 was sequel to the DYRL storyline, but isn't considered part of the main Macross storyline anymore

Their statement does actually say, albeit in a tortured translation, that they will be producing a slightly improved Toynami MPC. It WILL be based on the MPC if we can trust them. How much of an improvement remains to be seen. So far it doesn't sound like much. If they improve the fit and some of the joints that would be a big step, but that would be a lot of trouble I imagine.

These ones are proving tricky to attach for some reason...the tread ones used to be twice as large, but I couldn't figure out how to get the file size down so it would let me post it...even when I lowered it to 256 colors and made it a .gif it was over 500K

Let's see what I've got:

You've got it exactly right here. I don't know where the confusion is. And anyone who bought an Alpha as a valuable "collectable" and not simply as a cool toy of a show they liked was being foolish anyway. They were selling these things out of bargin bins in gamestop for christ's sake. I have all four Alphas, and I can't even imagine a world where I would be upset that they are releasing more.

If someone bought an Alpha assuming the "limited" print was an iron-clad promise then I guess they're screwed. I'm not saying this isn't them going back on what they initially said, but I am saying that I don't imagine very many people give a poo, and I'm sure Toynami cares even less. A collecter's (who's money they already have) hurt feelings that his Alpha isn't quite as "limited" as it once was versus profits from the Asian nostalgia market...tough call for Toynami/HG on that one. I find it hard to believe that anyone cares about this one way or the other. The Toynami's aren't gonna appreciate much anyway, at least this way Asian Mospeada fans can have a decent, modern Alpha/Legioss without importing one.

You guys are nuts. No way this will be a "fixed" version, and no way is this a slap in the face to previous buyers. North America had a, what, 2 year exclusive? Besides, at the prices Aoshima is selling these for, it doesn't look like they are any less "collectable" than they used to be. It's not like they were ever rare or hard to get anyhow.

A car-chase movie with CG stunts and enhancements is like...I dunno, about the lamest thing ever. I can't believe any self-respecting car nut would endorse any such thing. It goes against the very essense of what makes a car-chase awe-inspiring. I have the same feeling about aviation movies.

Edwin Star.

And with that I will attempt again to take the thread back to the years beofre turbojets and FBW, even if just for one post. Here we have one of the more attractive of the Schneider Trophy entrants, the unsuccessful Gloster VI. AND one of my favorites, the Ursinus U.1 (or I least I think I remember that as its tentative designation). Seaplane fighter with retracable floats. Very little information on it, only in two or three of my books, but easily one of my favorite concepts. So there you have it; stunning beauty and remarkable ingenuity. Discuss at your leisure.

I say Captain America should continue working on the rarer mechs he has been, rather that work on a conversion kit for the 1/48. Too many Valkyries as it is. Of course, I don't think any sort of poll is going to determine what Captain America decides to work on anyhow. If it WOULD though, I'd vote for lots of things before a 1/48 conversion kit.

Wait, wait, wait... So we are saying saint seiya isn't gay, right? News to me. All kidding aside, just becuase something is "gay" doesn't mean it's bad.

I, for one, would be surprised if Southern Cross got anything original produced for it. Re-releases of the kits, maybe "Aoshima-fied" action figures created from the old models, but that's it. I still think this Legioss is a metal version of the kits they are hawking. It makes too much sense. No way they are gonna sculpt new versions, especially given Aoshima's past m.o.

I'm pretty sure his son's movie wasn't a flop. Pretty successful actually from what little I've gathered.

It COULD be. It just ISN'T. They likely realized that there are far too few OG Thundercats fans to bother catering to. So they take what is obviously a "cool" concept that kids have been shown to like, and are reworking it and doing it again.

Like spelling and punctuation, for example. Bravo.

Even an ultra-high performace UAV doesn't change the nature and role of airpower. It's whizz-bang, but it's not truely transformative. UAVs are the future I'd agree, but it is the technology that supports them and has created network-centric warfare that represents the sea-change, as Noyhauser said.